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I'm in eleventh grade and around a year from now I'll have to commit to going to a college. Looking at the news it seems like it's very difficult for recent college graduates to get jobs because they don't have the right credentials. Instead of a bachelor's degree they should have a few years of actual work experience. Obviously, I don't want the same thing to happen to me. I do reasonably well in school, I think: Mostly As and a few Bs. If I did go to college I would hope to go somewhere like Amherst or as a last resort the University of Texas in order to get a B.A. A B.A. is obviously something not very conducive to getting a job, which is concerning; not that the alternatives such as medical school or engineering school are much better these days. I was thinking that maybe a better idea would be to start looking for a job immediately after high school and start getting those years of experience which all employers require at the moment. I would hope that my parents would let me live with them for those four years when I would otherwise go to college, which would allow me to not make very much money. Is this smart?
One thing I would have going for me in attending college is that my parents would pay for everything, meaning that I would have no student loans to pay off afterward.

Edit: I realize that if it is nearly impossible for a twenty-two-year-old to get a job it will be even more difficult for an eighteen-year-old, but I think my advantage would be that I wouldn't have to earn enough to support myself if I can live with my parents. That way I can afford to waste my time doing the most demeaning and unfair jobs.